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To settle your post-Oscar hangover, we\u2019re cracking open the Class of 2021 films this week and we\u2019ve invited Muppeturgy co-host Adam Grosswirth to join us. Dear Evan Hansen <\/i>follows a titular teen battling severe social anxiety, who fabricates a friendship with his bully after he dies by suicide, and faces the consequences of his lie when he goes viral.\u00a0After emerging victorious from the 2017 Tonys with a Best Musical win and cementing star Ben Platt\u2019s performance into theatre legend, the musical\u00a0was destined for a whole other kind of THOB legend. Once the trailer dropped, skepticism and mockery of the near-30 Platt playing a teen went rampant, and vicious reviews made the film DOA.<\/p>\n
This episode, we unpack the many problems inherent to the material and the attempts to soften them on film that only… make more problems. We also discuss the 2017 Tony season, Julianne Moore attempting the risk of a singing role, Amy Adams disappointing recent years, and the origins of the songwriting oeuvre of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.<\/p>\n
Topics also include The Politician<\/i>, director Stephen Chbosky\u2019s association to multiple failed movie musicals, and orchard confusion.<\/p>\n
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